SBCC Quality Assessment Tool

The SBCC (social and behavior change communication) Quality Assessment Tool and the guide detailing how to use the tool (available in letter and A4 sizes) and an accompanying spreadsheet are developed for use in workshop and meeting venues in which an organization and a facilitiator work to determine an organization’s competencies in three areas:

• Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) planning,
• Program implementation, and
• Research, monitoring and evaluation.

A facilitator administers the tool to members of an organization and provides the scoring along with feedback, which serves as a baseline and identifies the gaps in the organization that require strengthening. The same tool can be administered at a later point to provide data that shows improvements in specific competencies and where additional work still remains.

This flexible tool can be adapted for use across a wide variety of health areas, including HIV and AIDS, malaria, family planning and maternal, and sexual and reproductive health. Users are encouraged to adapt sections of the tool or use the particular components that best address their needs in assessing capacities of organizations implementing SBCC programs.  Comments are welcome; send an email to cchange@aed.org with subject line: SBCC tool